Legion Gold Victory: Slot Overview

To take control of millions of square kilometres and roughly 20% of the world’s population, as Ancient Rome once did, without advanced communications or motorised transport, demanded relentless determination. A trace of that perseverance seems to live on in software provider Play’n GO, which keeps expanding its Legion Gold line. At the time of writing, there are four entries – Legion Gold, Legion Gold Unleashed, Legion Gold and the Sphinx of Dead, and the game reviewed here, Legion Gold Victory. If you enjoyed the fairly modest win potential, the straightforward hold ‘n win Coin bonus, and the Wolf Gold-ish free spins round from earlier titles, they’re all present again, now joined by a new series addition: the Victory Gold feature.

The Roman Empire covered vast ground, and Legion Gold Victory doesn’t make it easy to pinpoint exactly where you are. The backdrop offers only a few clear clues about what land the legionaries flanking the reels might be crossing. Maybe that uncertainty fits the era. A tribune ordered a march, so you marched. A centurion told you to sack a village and run everyone through with a sword, so that’s what happened. Perhaps a legionnaire could still imagine swapping war for a quieter life, tending a small plot of land – a retirement dream of sorts, just with extra marching and stabbing.

Play’n GO has kept the same playfield used across the series, so once again you get a 5×3 grid with 25 paylines used to form winning combinations. Staying in line with the earlier releases, Legion Gold Victory runs on a medium volatile math model, and it also posts a slightly higher top RTP than the others at 96.3%, though players should note there are lower RTP setups available. Bets range from 5 c to $/€100, and after choosing a stake, it’s simply a case of hitting spin and letting the reels roll.

The paytable in Legion Gold Victory is built around animals and royalty. Jacks through Aces come first, returning 2 times the stake for 5-of-a-kind on a payline. Above them are a bird, a warthog, a deer, and a wolf, all styled for combat, paying 8 to 20 times the bet for 5 OAK. Wilds can land as 1×1 symbols or expand to 1×2 or 1×3, and they substitute for all standard paying symbols. Five wilds on a line pay 20x.

Legion Gold Victory: Slot Features

With the exception of the Egypt-themed entry, each Legion Gold slot has introduced something new, and Legion Gold Victory follows that pattern. Alongside the familiar Gold Respins and Mega Free Spins, this instalment adds a fresh prize mechanic called Victory Gold.

Gold Respins

Hitting 6 Gold Coin symbols activates 3 Gold Respins, during which only Gold Coins or Gold Coin Bags can appear. Whenever a Gold Coin lands, the respin counter is reset to 3. Gold Coins are sticky, and once the feature finishes, all visible Gold Coin values are paid out. Each Gold Coin carries a random value of 1x to 1,000x the bet. Landing a Gold Coin Bag symbol pays the total value of all Gold Coins currently showing on the grid. Gold Coin Bags do not stick in Gold Respins, but they do reset the respin count back to 3. If Gold Coins occupy all positions on the reels, an extra 1,000x Golden Prize is awarded in addition to the combined value of all Gold Coins on the reels.

Victory Gold

When Gold Coins land but Gold Respins doesn’t start and no Gold Coin Bag appears, the Gold Coins are collected by the Victory Gold above the reels. When coins are collected, there is a chance the Victory Gold will award the Victory Prize. The size of the win and the likelihood of Victory Gold triggering are not influenced by how many Gold Coins have been collected.

Mega Free Spins

Landing 3 scatters grants 5 Mega Free Spins. A 3x3 Mega symbol appears in a random position on each free spin. Mega Free Spins may be retriggered by landing the Mega Scatter – up to a cap of 45 free spins. In addition, Gold Respins can be triggered during Mega Free Spins by landing the Mega Gold Coin. This splits the Mega Gold Coin into 9 Gold Coins with random values. After Gold Respins concludes, play resumes from the free spin on which the Gold Respins feature was triggered.

Legion Gold Victory: Slot Verdict

Legion Gold Victory keeps the series moving forward, adding the occasional extra mechanic to broaden how it can entertain and potentially pay out to fortunate players. In most respects, it feels very similar to its predecessors. Gold Respins remains a fairly underwhelming moment where Gold Coin symbols land and stick. The Gold Coin Bag first seen in Legion Gold Unleashed does add some extra interest, while Mega Free Spins has stayed almost exactly the same since the franchise began. Visually and sonically, the production has been solid throughout, and Legion Gold Victory continues to be easy enough on both the eyes and the ears.

The main new element here is the Victory Gold feature. It does its job. Watching Gold Coins get gathered by the Victory Gold gives players something to focus on, and it also builds a bit of suspense when it happens, hoping those collected coins turn into a cash award. Victory Prizes aren’t massive, though, topping out at 100x. That said, the added mechanic comes alongside a higher win ceiling, and while 4,000x isn’t exactly headline material, it’s still a more appealing figure than earlier Legion Gold titles offered. What takes the wind out of it, however, is the 1 in 1 billion max exposure probability, which is notably worse than the other LG slots. Legion Gold Victory does expand on what came before, but if this were the kind of kit Rome relied on, it’s hard to imagine it conquering anything close to the ancient world it actually did.